The 4 Day Diet

AUDIOBOOK - The 4 Day Diet 3CDs - ex-library - SOLD AS IS

Dr. Ian demands big results from his diet plans: whether on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club, State Farm’s 50 Million Pound Challenge or his numerous inspirational appearances across the country, his advice has helped countless numbers of dieters lose millions of pounds.  With over twenty years of experience watching how and why dieters lose weight—and how they don’t—Dr. Ian developed a program that actually retrains the brain to diet naturally. In Mind Over Fat, Dr. Ian distills that program into the acronym SMARTER:

--Sense of where you are: don’t fool yourself about your habits and what kind of shape you’re in
--Make realistic goals: don’t sabotage your success by trying to do too much too fast
--Activate your motivational engine: learn how to be your own best diet coach
--Resist temptation: how to put yourself in an environment that supports your diet and keeps you disciplined
--Think thin: why visualization works
--Every bite counts: track your intake, but learn how to enjoy what you eat more at the same time
--Reward yourself: indulge yourself in small and big ways along the road to permanent weight loss

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These modules make SO much sense and they're laid out so perfectly. The food you can eat is spelled out very clearly and most importantly, you don't have to spend a lot of money on organic stuff like other diets make you spend. I went and got my food for the first week from a regular grocery store.

The recipes are some of the best I've ever seen in a diet book. I couldn't believe they were actually in a diet book. Pesto-crusted chickent breast with eggplant caponata,spicy turkey-chipotle meatloaf with sweet potato puree and grilled vegetables, steamed clams with whole wheat linguine and basil-white wine sauce. You get the point. They are like meals you would get in a restaurant. I've already made 2 and my husband can't stop talking about how good they are.

One of my children is a vegetarian and she can follow the 4 Day Diet too, because it has so many options and it allows you to make smart substitutions where necessary. I recommend this book to anyone who is serious about losing weight and like me is frustrated not being able to stick to a plan. I'll stick to this for the rest of my life because it doesn't feel like a diet. Thanks for this great book, Dr. Smith.